Read His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

really good story well worth a read

This is one I did a while ago.

It was like a movie in my mind…
with no cellphones going off,
and I had a private booking…

Some of the concepts are very interesting…
some of ‘D sep from C’ stuff was pretty heartwrenching in a good way.

phenomenal!

Honestly it wasn’t the fabulous revelation I had heard, but thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking. I’ll post a longer post soon; there were some ways it resolved some of the plot lines that bother me, but other ways I just loved it. Very good read no matter what.

But I don’t. It’s so good, so I’m frustrated to have so little time right now, while I’m in summer grad school. I’m reading something else with a 43-things partner over my vacation next week, so my personal goal is to find 10 minutes at a time this week until I’m done! This is wonderful, I can’t wait to see how it ends!

I like to carry books with me even if I don’t plan to read them. Like a security blanket I suppose, or maybe just a reminder that my brain is involved in something nice once in awhile. I put a bottle of water in my bag and it leaked. My Amber Spyglass won’t fit back in the box for the box set it came in anymore. Oh well, I’m still reading it. Now it’s a very FAT paperback and looks even more impressive!

Boy, this is great- the key elements sometimes seem dropped in just as background, but what bombshells! I love it- I love the restraint it must have taken to keep the plot elements tightly wound for so long- terrific!

I just finished the third book in the extraordinarily visionary, imaginative trilogy today. I can’t believe the fundamentalist Christians haven’t seized on this book and started bonfires with it (yet) (at least to my knowledge). It is deeply spiritual, telling in a fictional format essentially the same story as the scientists and researchers talk about in “What the Bleep.” But it is very anti-religion, anti-hypocrisy, and somewhst anti-Christianity. It also celebrates sensuality, living in the body, mourrns death, is not afraid to tackle characters who are good, evil, or both (Mrs. Coulter, or Marisa to Lord Asriel, will keep you guessing right to the end.)

The trilogy is:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

These are written for older children, but the material is dense and quite adult. Stunning and original.

Website about the books and author: http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=36

They’re possibly better than Harry Potter, and that’s saying a lot. I read them as they came out and loved every page. Highly recommended.

I waited far too long to read these. It’s amazing how many references to this trilogy I’ve encountered reading other books.